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Global Stratification

1/24/2019

 
Measuring Global Poverty
  • What Is Extreme Poverty? (Global Citizen)
  • Tracking Poverty From Space (Los Angeles Times)
  • An ambitious project to measure the wealth of nations shows how GDP is a deceptive gauge of progress (Quartz)

Data & Demographics
  • Wealth gap widening for more than 70% of global population (The Guardian)
  • A global tipping point: Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (Brookings)
  • The shifting gravity of global poverty (World Bank)
  • Definitive data on what poor people buy when they’re just given cash (Quartz)
  • Global Wealth Update: 0.7% Of Adults Control $116.6 Trillion In Wealth (Zero Hedge Fund)
  • The World Bank released new poverty lines — find out where your country stands (Business Insider)
  • What The Stat About The 8 Richest Men Doesn't Tell Us About Inequality (NPR)

Global Inequality Consequences
  • Inequality is getting so bad even Wall Street is starting to pay attention (Business Insider)

Life Chances
  • A Birth Certificate is a Person’s First Possession (The Atlantic)
  • These 2 Boys Were Born The Same Day In The Same Town, But Their Lives Will Be Dramatically Different (HuffPost)

Location and Migration
  • A Record 68.5 Million People in the World Were Forcibly Displaced by the End of 2017 (Time)
  • The Best And Worst Places To Be A Kid (NPR)

Race & Ethnic Inequality
  • Mexico's Color Line and the Cultural Imperialism of Light-Skin Preference (Truthout)
  • Study reveals racial inequality in Mexico, disproving its 'race-blind' rhetoric (The Conversation)

Gender Income Inequality
  • Women, Burdened With Unpaid Labor, Bear Brunt of Global Inequality (The New York Times)
  • There’s a huge gender component to income inequality that we're ignoring (Business Insider)
  • The world’s gender wage gap won’t close for another 100 years (Market Watch)

Gender Inequality & Culture
  • While the men of this village go looking for work, the women are in charge (World Economic Forum)
  • Menstrual Hygiene Management Enables Women and Girls to Reach Their Full Potential (World Economic Forum)
  • Death Threats & $3 Ponytails: What The Fake Hair Trade Is Hiding (Refinery 29)
  • This is why 63 million girls are missing in India (New York Post)
  • Honour killings in India (Al Jazeera)
  • Breaking the silence in the world capital of female genital mutilation (CNN)
  • Around The World, Girls Are Taught The Same Limiting Lesson (Huff Post)

Gender Inequality & Public Policy
  • Women have only three quarters of economic rights of men (Reuters)
  • Only six countries have equal rights for men and women (CNN)
  • Sexist Global Laws (Bustle)
  • Are human rights bad for women? (Reuters)
  • Iceland makes it illegal to pay women less than men (CNN)

Child Marriage
  • They escaped child marriage. Now they're speaking out (CNN)

Child Labor
  • An army of children toils in African mica mines (NBC)
  • Children mining cobalt in Democratic Republic of Congo (CBS News)
  • This child being abused in a cobalt mine is why Apple is trying to fix the mining business (Business Insider)

Work Environments
  • Two garment factory disasters a century apart show how globalization has sapped labor’s power (Quartz)
  • In just four days, top fashion CEOs earn a garment worker’s lifetime pay (Quartz)
  • How illegal gold mining in South America poisons people (Miami Herald)
  • It would cost you 20 cents more per T-shirt to pay an Indian worker a living wage (The Conversation)
  • The Cobalt Pipeline (The Washington Post)

Sex Trafficking, Harassment, & Violence
  • Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men. (USA Today)
  • The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl (New Yorker)
  • We went to India’s largest brothel, where trafficked women work for as little as $3 (Vice News)
  • The dangers of the new child marriage law in Bangladesh (CNN)
  • Sexual harassment: How it stands around the globe (CNN)
  • Why Do Men Harass Women? New Study Sheds Light On Motivations (NPR)
  • Mass Rapes To Mass Protests: Violence Against Women In 2016 (Huffington Post)

Slave Labor
  • Yes, Slavery Still Exists — These Countries Are the Worst Offenders (Global Citizen)
  • You buy a purse at Walmart. There’s a note inside from a “Chinese prisoner.” Now what? (Vox)
  • Rising in the Middle East: Forced Labor From Africa (OZY)
  • New Report Finds Slavery Worse Than Ever, With 40.3 Million People Currently Enslaved (Blavity)
  • People for sale: Where lives are auctioned for $400 (CNN)
  • 40 million slaves in the world, finds new report (CNN)

Living Conditions
  • More than one billion people do not have access to electricity (World Economic Forum)
  • The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it (Our World in Data)
  • An infrastructure deficit is making life in African cities more expensive than it should be (Quartz)

Food Insecurity
  • A look at why so many people don't get enough food (Los Angeles Times)

Digital Divide
  • 52% of the world does not have internet access (Axios)

Global Education
  • Why we should invest in getting more kids to read — and how to do it (The World Bank)
  • Drive to get children back to school failing worldwide (The Guardian)

Global Health
  • Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. (New York Times)
  • In parts of Africa, people with albinism are hunted for their body parts (The Los Angeles Times)

Public Policy
  • How Africa can catch up with the world in the fight against poverty (The Conversation)
  • Reduce Inequalities: Why It Matters (United Nations)
  • How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money? (NPR)
  • A College Student Complained About Capitalism. When the Prof Was Done With Him, He Was Speechless (Independent Journal Review)

Remittances
  • Remittances from abroad are major economic assets for some developing countries (Pew Research Center)Global Poverty (United Nations)

Social Mobility
  • Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World (World Economic Forum)

High Income Countries
  • Report Finds Surprisingly High Rate of Slavery in Developed Countries
  • What are the richest countries in the world? (USA Today)
  • This European country is a model for all the world (World Economic Forum)
  • Denmark is deemed most progressive place in the world to live (Daily Mail)
  • Norway unseats Denmark as world's happiest country: report (Reuters)

United States
  • Statement on Visit to the USA (United Nations)
  • A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America (The Guardian)
  • The UN sent an envoy to investigate extreme poverty in the United States (Quartz)
  • Global report sees rise in inequality in US (Politico)

Global Stratification and History
  • The Richest Man and Men Who Ever Lived (BBC)








    Contents

    All
    AGE Caregivers
    AGE Culture & Ageism
    AGE Death & Dying
    AGE Demographics
    AGE Deviance
    AGE Family & Networks
    AGE Finances
    AGE Generations
    AGE Global
    AGE Housing
    AGE Inequalities
    AGE Intimacy
    AGE Physical
    AGE Politics
    AGE Psychological
    AGE Retirement
    AGE Social
    DEV Addiction
    DEV Addiction History
    DEV Crime Data
    DEV Criminal Justice
    DEV Cybercrime
    DEV Definition
    DEV History
    DEV Homicide & Guns
    DEV Incarceration
    DEV Juvenile Delinquency
    DEV Privileged
    DEV Sexual
    DEV Sexual Violence
    DEV Stigmatization
    DEV Suicide & Self-Harm
    DEV Underprivileged
    FAM Communication
    FAM Dating
    FAM Divorce
    FAM Global
    FAM History
    FAM Intimacy
    FAM Marriage & Cohabitation
    FAM Parenthood
    FAM Race/Class/Gender
    FAM Relatives
    FAM Singlehood
    FAM Single Parents
    FAM Step Families
    FAM Violence
    FAM Work
    MED Behaviors
    MED Complementary Med
    MED Costs
    MED Diagnoses
    MED Facilities
    MED Global
    MED Life Expectancy
    MED Loneliness
    MED Medical History
    MED Medicalization
    MED Mental Health
    MED Pharma
    MED Policies
    MED Professions
    MED Public Health
    MED Social Determinants
    SOC Collective Behavior
    SOC Collective Behavior His
    SOC Culture American
    SOC Culture Change
    SOC Culture Elements
    SOC Culture Global
    SOC Culture History
    SOC Demography
    SOC Demography History
    SOC Disabilities
    SOC Ecology Human
    SOC Economic Systems
    SOC Economy Consumption
    SOC Economy Corporations
    SOC Economy Employment
    SOC Economy History
    SOC Economy Inequality
    SOC Economy Work
    SOC Education Data
    SOC Education Global
    SOC Education Higher
    SOC Education History
    SOC Education & Inequality
    SOC Education & Institutions
    SOC Education Interaction
    SOC Education Policy
    SOC Education Success
    SOC Education Trends
    SOC Education Violence
    SOC Ethnic Def/Trends
    SOC Ethnic History
    SOC Ethnic Relations
    SOC Gender History
    SOC Gender Trends
    SOC Global Strat
    SOC Groups Formal
    SOC Groups History
    SOC Interaction
    SOC Interaction Psych
    SOC LGBTQ+ History
    SOC LGBTQ+ Trends
    SOC Mass Media
    SOC Mass Media History
    SOC Political History
    SOC Political Institution
    SOC Religious Institution
    SOC Research
    SOC Research History
    SOC SES History
    SOC SES Homelessness
    SOC SES Life Chances
    SOC SES Mobility
    SOC SES Policy
    SOC SES Statistics
    SOC SES Universal Income
    SOC Socialization Agents
    SOC Socialization Dev
    SOC Socialization History
    SOC Socialization Inequality
    SOC Socialization Span
    SOC Societies
    SOC Sociolinguistics Culture
    SOC Sociolinguistics History
    SOC Sociolinguistics Hum
    SOC Sociolinguistics Power
    SOC Sociologists
    SOC Stratification
    SOC Stratification History
    SOC Theories
    SOC Urban & Rural
    SOC Urban & Rural History
    TOPIC Art
    TOPIC Evolution Human
    TOPIC Food
    TOPIC Human-Animal
    TOPIC Humanistic Thought
    TOPIC Space
    TOPIC Sports
    TOPIC Technology

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